Executive Mosaic, a leadership media and events company in the government contracting space, has named the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award that seeks to highlight the contributions and efforts of the 100 private and public sector leaders in leading government contracting industry's growth and innovation. "We are thrilled to honor the winners of the 2021 Wash100 Award," said Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic. “This is our eighth consecutive year recognizing the outstanding achievements of the most significant GovCon and federal executives in 2020 as well as the vision and success they will continue to bring in 2021 and beyond."

Lockheed Martin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a portion of Integration Innovation Inc. (i3), a software and systems engineering company, to advance hypersonic-specific technology platforms for the warfighter. "This business combination not only reinforces our commitment to their missions, but also expands our portfolio in a strategic way,” said Eric Scherff, vice president of Hypersonic Strike Programs at Lockheed Martin.

Jacobs has elected Manny Fernandez, managing partner at KPMG, to the company’s Board of Directors, Jacobs reported on Thursday. Fernandez will retire from KPMG on Sept. 30th and join the Jacobs’ Board of Directors on Oct. 5th. Fernandez will bring nearly four decades of experience, advising both public and private companies. 

McAfee has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud security access broker platform designed to help federal customers protect data and applications in multicloud computing environments. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted provisional authority-to-operate approval to McAfee's MVISION Cloud offering at high level, the company said Thursday.

TTEC Holdings has added new workforce optimization, virtual reality, customer relationship management and artificial intelligence applications to a contact center management platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

A business unit under Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space segment is working with Apple and Google as well as the academic and public sectors to deploy a COVID-19 contact-tracing app.

The Information Technology Industry Council has introduced a set of principles to support national security coordination initiatives between global industry players and the U.S. government.

Technology companies such as Google, Amazon Web Services and Accenture are helping states address website crashes, busy phone lines and other issues as they process unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler, spoke to ExecutiveBiz regarding the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s recently released Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 Interim Telework Guidance and how it will assist with the public sector’s remote work.

Will Jones, a senior vice president of Carahsoft, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about information technology modernization, government agility and business continuity.

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other technology companies are reaching out to the federal government to help with coronavirus pandemic response efforts, FedScoop reported Monday. “This is unprecedented and so the response from the tech sector has been unprecedented,” Nick Sinai, a senior adviser at venture capital firm Insight Partners, told the publication.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for her leadership and efforts to grow the company through major contract awards, support federal agencies and the U.S. military and drive innovation in emerging technology through GDIT’s workforce.